Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is the largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School with a 999-bed capacity located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the third oldest general hospital in the United States and is a founding member of Mass General Brigham (formerly known as Partners HealthCare), the largest healthcare provider in Massachusetts.
The hospital houses the largest hospital-based research program in the world, the Mass General Research Institute, with an annual research budget of over $1 billion in 2019 and is currently ranked as the #8 best hospital in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. It was founded in 1811 by Harvard Medical School Professor of Anatomy and Surgery John Warren and his son John Collins Warren, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and James Jackson. The original hospital was designed by Charles Bulfinch and was intended to care for the poor. In November 2017, The Boston Globe ranked MGH the fifth best place to work out of Massachusetts companies with over 1,000 employees.
Walter J. Dodd established the radiology department at the hospital and the first American hospital social workers were based in the hospital. The hospital’s work with developing specialized computer software systems for medical use in the 1960s led to the development of the MUMPS programming language, which stands for “Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System,” an important programming language and database system heavily used in medical applications such as patient records and billing.
Address: 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114
Phone: (617) 726-2000
- Open 24 hours
- Emergency room: Open 24 hours
Appointments: Massachusetts General Hospital